In 1562, France managed Charles IX, in a country plagued by religious wars ... Marie de Mezieres, one of the richest heiresses of the kingdom, like the young Duke of Guise, later nicknamed Spot and he, as she seems to share her feelings. However, the girl s father, the Marquis de Mézières, tends to raise his family, and gives his daughter to marry the Prince de Montpensier, whom she does not even know.